Comparing static and dynamic predictors of risk for hostility in serious mental illness: Preliminary findings

This study compared static predictors of hostility (e.g. demographics, clinician ratings) to subjective (i.e., self-reported affect on slider scales in response to written questions) and objective (i.e., vocal indicators of arousal from speech samples in a story-retelling task) dynamic predictors using ambulatory assessment over five days in a sample of 25 stable outpatients with diagnoses of a serious mental illness. Multilevel modeling showed that both subjective and objective dynamic predictors were significant, but none of the static predictors were.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - September 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tovah Cowan, Thanh P. Le, Brita Elvev åg, Peter W. Foltz, Raymond P. Tucker, Terje B. Holmlund, Alex S. Cohen Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research